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Climate Change, Adaptive Strategies and Rural Livelihoods in
... and variability, a situation that is aggravated by the interaction of multiple stresses, occurring at various levels [1,4]. This is partly due to low adaptive capacity and higher reliance on natural resources, such as agricultural land, forests and water which are very sensitive to ...
... and variability, a situation that is aggravated by the interaction of multiple stresses, occurring at various levels [1,4]. This is partly due to low adaptive capacity and higher reliance on natural resources, such as agricultural land, forests and water which are very sensitive to ...
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... response to today’s climate challenges. As a result, the concept of transformation is moving to the forefront of debates about responses to climate change (WBGU, 2011; O’Brien, 2012; Park et al., 2012). Nonetheless, there are some very different conversations taking place around transformation. Tran ...
... response to today’s climate challenges. As a result, the concept of transformation is moving to the forefront of debates about responses to climate change (WBGU, 2011; O’Brien, 2012; Park et al., 2012). Nonetheless, there are some very different conversations taking place around transformation. Tran ...
energy: Supply, Demand, and impacts
... profile of electricity demand, each of which is vulnerable to climate change. Projected changes in runoff due to potential decreased precipitation and increased evaporation (Chapter 6) means less water for hydropower production. Earlier snowmelt (Chapter 6) and shifts in the frequency of extreme eve ...
... profile of electricity demand, each of which is vulnerable to climate change. Projected changes in runoff due to potential decreased precipitation and increased evaporation (Chapter 6) means less water for hydropower production. Earlier snowmelt (Chapter 6) and shifts in the frequency of extreme eve ...
cơ sở xây dựng hệ thống đo đạc, báo cáo, thẩm định (cho việt nam
... – Winter temperatures may increase higher than summer temperatures. – Total rainfall in rainy season increase, rainfall during dry season tends to decrease in the South; – Precipitation may increase about 5% compared with 1980-1999; that of the North increase higher than the South. – Sea level rise ...
... – Winter temperatures may increase higher than summer temperatures. – Total rainfall in rainy season increase, rainfall during dry season tends to decrease in the South; – Precipitation may increase about 5% compared with 1980-1999; that of the North increase higher than the South. – Sea level rise ...
Impact of Climate Change on the Coastal Areas of
... These GHGs prevent the heat from immediately escaping into space. The part of the atmosphere that is closest to the earth’s surface warms, resulting in Global Warming. ...
... These GHGs prevent the heat from immediately escaping into space. The part of the atmosphere that is closest to the earth’s surface warms, resulting in Global Warming. ...
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... Models that link yields of the four largest commodity crops to weather indicate that global maize and wheat production declined by 3.8 and 5.5%, respectively, relative to a counterfactual without climate trends. For soybeans and rice, winners and losers largely balanced out. Climate trends were larg ...
... Models that link yields of the four largest commodity crops to weather indicate that global maize and wheat production declined by 3.8 and 5.5%, respectively, relative to a counterfactual without climate trends. For soybeans and rice, winners and losers largely balanced out. Climate trends were larg ...
Activity 2.1: Historical Climate Cycles
... American Geophysical Union in San Francisco on Tues, Dec. 6, that warming of 2 degrees Celsius would lead to drastic changes, such as significant ice sheet loss in Greenland and Antarctica. Based on Hansen's temperature analysis work at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the Earth's average gl ...
... American Geophysical Union in San Francisco on Tues, Dec. 6, that warming of 2 degrees Celsius would lead to drastic changes, such as significant ice sheet loss in Greenland and Antarctica. Based on Hansen's temperature analysis work at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the Earth's average gl ...
Climate Trends and Global Crop Production Since 1980
... Models that link yields of the four largest commodity crops to weather indicate that global maize and wheat production declined by 3.8 and 5.5%, respectively, relative to a counterfactual without climate trends. For soybeans and rice, winners and losers largely balanced out. Climate trends were larg ...
... Models that link yields of the four largest commodity crops to weather indicate that global maize and wheat production declined by 3.8 and 5.5%, respectively, relative to a counterfactual without climate trends. For soybeans and rice, winners and losers largely balanced out. Climate trends were larg ...
C L limate iteracy
... climate variations or perished. While global climate has been relatively stable over the last 10,000 years—the span of human civilization—regional variations in climate patterns have influenced human history in profound ways, playing an integral role in whether societies thrived or failed. We now kn ...
... climate variations or perished. While global climate has been relatively stable over the last 10,000 years—the span of human civilization—regional variations in climate patterns have influenced human history in profound ways, playing an integral role in whether societies thrived or failed. We now kn ...
Carbon and the Anthropocene
... Progenitors of the Anthropocene All life on Earth, including humankind, is carbon-based. Organic carbon molecules provide the basic biochemical machinery underlying evolution and the use of environmental energy, attributes essential to life. DNA and RNA store and propagate information with nearly bu ...
... Progenitors of the Anthropocene All life on Earth, including humankind, is carbon-based. Organic carbon molecules provide the basic biochemical machinery underlying evolution and the use of environmental energy, attributes essential to life. DNA and RNA store and propagate information with nearly bu ...
Greenhouse Gas Removal
... geological formations. Studies suggesting that CO2 stored in geological formations could be secure for over 100,000 years.1 ...
... geological formations. Studies suggesting that CO2 stored in geological formations could be secure for over 100,000 years.1 ...
Global Climate Change - Florida Atlantic University
... Unequal heating of the Earth’s surface also forms large global wind systems. In area near the equator, the sun is almost directly overhead for most of the year. Warm air rises at the equator and moves toward the poles. At the poles, the cooler air sinks and moves back toward the equator. Global wind ...
... Unequal heating of the Earth’s surface also forms large global wind systems. In area near the equator, the sun is almost directly overhead for most of the year. Warm air rises at the equator and moves toward the poles. At the poles, the cooler air sinks and moves back toward the equator. Global wind ...
The Climate Change Benefits of Reducing Methane Emissions
... Climate change is likely to bring harmful impacts in the decades to come (IPCC WGII, 2001, p5). Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions would therefore bring benefits. But which gases should we reduce? Although carbon dioxide has captured most of the headlines, methane is also a potent greenhouse gas ...
... Climate change is likely to bring harmful impacts in the decades to come (IPCC WGII, 2001, p5). Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions would therefore bring benefits. But which gases should we reduce? Although carbon dioxide has captured most of the headlines, methane is also a potent greenhouse gas ...
Earth System Processes
... regular orbit of the Earth around the Sun, we expect them, and we look forward to them. We plan summer vacations and winter ski trips accordingly. Farmers plan their crops and harvests around the seasonal cycle. By comparison, variations in the average weather from one year to the next are quite mod ...
... regular orbit of the Earth around the Sun, we expect them, and we look forward to them. We plan summer vacations and winter ski trips accordingly. Farmers plan their crops and harvests around the seasonal cycle. By comparison, variations in the average weather from one year to the next are quite mod ...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation in the United States of America
... 5. Continued Multilateral Climate Negotiations through the UNFCCC: The bilateral agreement with China in late 2014 to restrain greenhouse gas emissions was a welcome development that put pressure on other states like India. However, while China and the US are the biggest emitters in the world today, ...
... 5. Continued Multilateral Climate Negotiations through the UNFCCC: The bilateral agreement with China in late 2014 to restrain greenhouse gas emissions was a welcome development that put pressure on other states like India. However, while China and the US are the biggest emitters in the world today, ...
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... change’, the goal enshrined in the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change18,33,34. In contrast, debates about evidence per se — such as whether there is anthropogenic climate change — can be interminable, as there will always be uncertainties to forestall decision-making. Plannin ...
... change’, the goal enshrined in the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change18,33,34. In contrast, debates about evidence per se — such as whether there is anthropogenic climate change — can be interminable, as there will always be uncertainties to forestall decision-making. Plannin ...
Midterm review - UCLA: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
... The average of smaller scale effects has important impacts on large-scale climate. • e.g., clouds primarily occur at small scales, yet the average amount of sunlight reflected by clouds affects the average solar heating of a whole grid box. Parameterization: representing average effects of scale ...
... The average of smaller scale effects has important impacts on large-scale climate. • e.g., clouds primarily occur at small scales, yet the average amount of sunlight reflected by clouds affects the average solar heating of a whole grid box. Parameterization: representing average effects of scale ...
Regional climate shifts caused by gradual global cooling in the
... The Earth’s climate has undergone a global transition over the past four million years, from warm conditions with global surface temperatures about 3 8C warmer than today, smaller ice sheets and higher sea levels to the current cooler conditions. Tectonic changes and their influence on ocean heat tr ...
... The Earth’s climate has undergone a global transition over the past four million years, from warm conditions with global surface temperatures about 3 8C warmer than today, smaller ice sheets and higher sea levels to the current cooler conditions. Tectonic changes and their influence on ocean heat tr ...
A U.S.-centric Chronology of the International Climate Change Negotiations Jane A. Leggett
... Progress was made on draft texts regarding some elements, such as pledges to commit to further GHG reductions by Annex I Parties, assistance for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, adaptation, and goals for financial assistance. The sessions revealed distance among many cou ...
... Progress was made on draft texts regarding some elements, such as pledges to commit to further GHG reductions by Annex I Parties, assistance for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, adaptation, and goals for financial assistance. The sessions revealed distance among many cou ...
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... therefore not a primary concern. New Zealand (NZ) is unusual amongst developed countries though, with more than half of its GHG emissions originating from agricultural processes, and the sector’s emissions are as a consequence likely to be targeted in some form. For comparison, European Union (EU) a ...
... therefore not a primary concern. New Zealand (NZ) is unusual amongst developed countries though, with more than half of its GHG emissions originating from agricultural processes, and the sector’s emissions are as a consequence likely to be targeted in some form. For comparison, European Union (EU) a ...
The impacts of climate change on nuclear power stations sites
... present nuclear power as the best cure for climate change – an affordable source of large amounts clean energy. In so doing, they flout the history which shows that investment in nuclear energy is hugely expensive in the long-term and represents an unjustifiable drain on the country’s exchequer, and ...
... present nuclear power as the best cure for climate change – an affordable source of large amounts clean energy. In so doing, they flout the history which shows that investment in nuclear energy is hugely expensive in the long-term and represents an unjustifiable drain on the country’s exchequer, and ...
Trends - hvonstorch.de
... The check of consistency of recent and ongoing trends with predictions from dynamical (or other) models represents a kind of „attribution without detection“. The idea is to estimate the driver-related change from a (series of) model scenarios (or predictions), and to compare this “expected change” w ...
... The check of consistency of recent and ongoing trends with predictions from dynamical (or other) models represents a kind of „attribution without detection“. The idea is to estimate the driver-related change from a (series of) model scenarios (or predictions), and to compare this “expected change” w ...
Switzerland
... established. Switzerland has committed itself under the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (2008-2012) and reached its target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 8 percent compared to 1990, including through the use of carbon credits. At the beginning of 2013, the CO2 Act and the CO2 Or ...
... established. Switzerland has committed itself under the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (2008-2012) and reached its target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 8 percent compared to 1990, including through the use of carbon credits. At the beginning of 2013, the CO2 Act and the CO2 Or ...
Climate change in the United States
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Because of global warming, there has been concern in the United States and internationally, that the country should reduce total greenhouse gas which is relatively high per capita.In 2012, the United States experienced its warmest year on record. As of 2012, the thirteen warmest years for the entire planet have all occurred since 1998, transcending those from 1880.From 1950 to 2009, the American government's surface temperature record shows an increase by 1 °F (0.56 °C), approximately. Global warming has caused many changes in the U.S. According to a 2009 statement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), trends include lake and river ice melting earlier in the spring, plants blooming earlier, multiple animal species shifting their habitat ranges northward, and reductions in the size of glaciers.Predicting future climate changes are fraught with difficultly. Some research has warned against possible problems due to American climate changes such as the spread of invasive species and possibilities of floods as well as droughts. Changes in climate in the regions of the United States appear significant. Drought conditions appear to be worsening in the southwest while improving in the northeast for example.President Barack Obama committed in the December 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Summit to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the range of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020, 42% below 2005 levels by 2030, and 83% below 2005 levels by 2050. In an address towards the U.S. Congress in June 2013, Obama detailed a specific action plan to achieve the 17% carbon emissions cut from 2005 by 2020. He included such measures as shifting from coal-based power generation to solar and natural gas production.